What is thread starvation?

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What is thread starvation?

Thread starvation refers to a situation in which a thread is unable to make progress or complete its task due to being consistently deprived of the necessary resources or access to the CPU. This can occur when other threads or processes monopolize the resources, leading to a lack of available resources for the starved thread. Thread starvation can result in decreased performance, increased latency, and overall inefficiency in a concurrent system.